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The truth is that it's been about four years since we've heard from her.

She sold her house to my godmother, so she could rest in peace.

And we didn't come there with my husband and my children.

We didn't come here to live.

The only thing I know is that she was with a man from Chaco.

He got together with him and then he disappeared from here in the village.

Then he came back to sell the house and they left together.

But he didn't leave a phone number, address, nothing.

Did you come to visit her?

Yes.

What a pity, dear, that they haven't let you read anything.

Good morning. Good morning, how are you?

I'm looking for a job these days, for the summer.

Cleaning the pile, cutting the grass.

What happens is that this is not my house.

I'm taking care of my uncles and I think he's in charge of those things.

It's good for me that you give me a few pesos a day.

It's only now for the summer, because later I have a worded job in the

capital, but...

Paint.

Come tomorrow and let me talk to my uncle to see if he tells me to do

something. Do you think?

Yes, it's great, thank you. No, nothing, nothing.

You are Eugenio, right?

Yes.

Because I bathed myself several times in that toilet when I was a boy.

I am the Russian, they told me, the son of Esther.

That had the kiosk there, next to the... In the valley, where the bondi is

abandoned.

Martín?

Yes. How are you? I thought you looked familiar.

I'll come tomorrow and... Do you want to come? No, no. No, no, no, no, no. It's

okay.

Tomorrow I'll come. Come on, come tomorrow.

Okay, well.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome. See you tomorrow.

Martin, come here, I bought something to eat.

Where are you staying?

In Laguna, girl.

I live next to the hospital.

And your mom?

No. My mom died when I was three.

That's when... I went to live with my Uruguayan grandmother.

To Montevideo.

To Cardozo.

So?

Montevideo, yes. Cardozo, no. What? Is it a town?

Yes.

A town that is right in the middle of Uruguay.

And you didn't come back?

No. Well, yes. I came back to Buenos Aires a couple of times with my

grandmother.

And here, just once when I was 18.

Also with my grandmother.

And do you have cousins?

No.

Well, yes, but they all live in Buenos Aires.

And in Buenos Aires, where are you going to stay?

No, I don't know yet.

Excuse me.

Can I take a shower in the shower in the warehouse?

No, there's no hot water there. But did you take a shower here in the bathroom

inside the house?

No, no, it's okay, it doesn't matter. Come on, I'll give you a towel.

No, no, it's okay. Come on, come on, come on.

Martin, I have some clothes here. I don't know if you want to see them.

Some clothes that my old man was wearing. Maybe you want something.

I mean, so you don't wear your clothes. I don't know.

See if you have anything left.

No, nothing. Keep everything you want.

Eugenio.

Yes.

I'm leaving.

Oh, another person.

Come and sit down for a moment.

Eat something, eat something. I was working all day.

I talked to my uncle.

I convinced him to do a couple of arrangements that are necessary over

time. So there will be work all summer.

You are until the last of February.

And when do you start in March?

In the first week.

And where?

Of maintenance in a school of... Religious.

Listen to me, every time you want to bathe, you get in and ask.

Yes.

I'm going to the hospital now, do you want me to take you?

No, I'm going to the municipal hospital, there next to where my cousin lives. Ah,

I'll take you, huh?

No, no, it's seven quarters and it's to the other side.

Okay, come with me.

Oh, it's so hot. What's up?

And now that the sun hits her... What?

You're going to wet the whole seat.

No, it's okay.

Thank you. No problem, see you.

Bye, see you tomorrow.

Martín, don't you want to get into the pool? You've been in the sun all day,

you're going to cook.

No, no, it's fine, thanks.

Come on, come on.

Sit down for a while, I'll get you a dough.

Come on, please, don't let me rob you.

Come on, leave all this here and... Come on, come on, I'll get you a dough and

you'll sit down for a while.

Okay.

We're quite similar, aren't we?

Yes.

Let's see.

Look, I think you have to keep this one.

Thanks. Try it here.

Here? Yes, yes, yes. Easy.

Excuse me.

¿Cómo fue?

Bien.

Creo que bien.

En vez de la tenés, la llevo.

Do you remember?

Two pineapples.

What?

Two pineapples.

Look.

Look.

See?

Here.

Look.

Hey.

Why did you come to see your aunt?

Because... She's my grandmother and...

The one who raised you?

Of course.

I lived with her and... And well, when... When she passed away, my uncle

came and... And he told me that... That I had to leave the little room

because... They were going to... Fix the house there to sell... To make the

succession and then sell.

And what did he leave you on the street from one day to the next?

He left me three months.

I was there until December.

And you enter into the succession, I imagine, of the house.

What happens is that that house is actually of a man who was with my

grandmother for about 20 years, but he is not my grandmother.

I did not know my grandfather.

And well, my uncle, well, in reality, I say my uncle, but in

reality it is nothing.

He left my grandmother to stay there, but well, now that he passed away...

I have nothing to do with that.

And you came here before you fell in Buenos Aires?

Yes.

What happened?

What happened, Martin?

I got stuck.

Are you okay? Yes, yes, I got stuck.

I got stuck with the wire.

Ah, but you cut yourself. No, but a little bit.

Let's see.

No,

come here, I'll put something on you because... No, no, no.

It can get infected.

No, no, no, it's okay.

No, look how that is.

No, no, no, come here.

No, look how it is. Come on, I'll put something on you.

Now, now.

This should be the anti-titanic, right?

No, no, no. It's fine.

Yes, yes, yes.

Now I'll take you to the hospital and then I'll leave you with your aunt.

No... I'm not staying with my aunt.

And where are you going?

¿Y esto es todo lo que tenés?

Tengo dos o tres cajas con cosas en el taller mecánico de un primo en Luján.

¿No lo podías llamar a él?

Tiene tres hijos.

Apenas tiene lugar para ellos.

No quise molestar.

Está bien.

Está bien.

You really have a job in March, don't you? Yes, worded, but... They

won't tell me one thing for another.

Tomorrow I'll take you to the hospital.

Let's see if you have to take the anti-titanic or something.

Martin. Yes?

I brought you some books, in case you want to read in your free time.

Well, thanks.

I agree, I agree.

Tomorrow I'm going to the capital in the morning.

And I come back past.

In the fridge there are some milanesas with a meat with potatoes from the other

day too.

Or if you want, make yourself something.

As you wish.

You stay taking care of the house.

I'm going to look for another coke.

Wait a second, Martín.

I'm going to put on my clothes, I'll take this.

Come to my room later when I'm done.

Eugenio? Here, come.

Did you tell me to come?

Yes.

I brought you some clothes.

Let's see, keep in mind that it goes with everything there is.

So much clothes that I keep in the end, that I never end up using.

Look.

And try these too.

Look to see if they fit, because if not I can still change them.

This

has

nothing.

The thing is, they're from a friend's business. He gives them to me for free.

Well, I'll tell you later.

Did you try them on?

Yes, try them on here.

If you don't, it's okay. Don't be crazy.

What do you write?

A book.

In general, I write notes for newspapers and articles and that, but now I'm

writing a book.

So, like a story?

Yes, a novel.

And what's the story about?

It's a... It's a father who lives with his children in a kind of land

extension, very big, that he owns.

And one day...

The youngest daughter, a six-year-old girl, starts asking him questions.

Families like those of those times when nobody talks at the table, except if the

father allows it, right?

And the girl starts asking questions that leave the father with his mouth

open. One day, for example, she asks him, why is he the owner of all those

lands?

And the father answers very naturally that he inherited them.

But the girl begins to inquire, how can it be?

That people decide from one day to the next that something belongs to them.

It's a... It's a game between the power that the father has and this kind of

look between... Innocent and communist, from the girl.

That the father doesn't know where it came from.

It's like a look at the right and the wrong.

But from the real innocence, of trying to understand.

This is because...

They take it to the father and start seeing the girl as the germ of something

that can be devoured.

The germ is called the novel.

Here we kill a cat with stones.

Really?

I don't remember that I was with you. I remember now.

I remember that I did it with a kid under a bridge next to a river.

Every time I see a dead cat I remember that cat.

He was lying under the bridge, shitting his pants.

Do you remember when we were going to hunt with my dad?

I really remember.

Your dad told my mom that we were going to fish.

Yeah? And she was really calm.

She didn't even imagine that at 2 o'clock she was walking with a gun in

her hand. Well, it wasn't a gun either. It was compressed air.

Yes, yes, it's still here, if you see it you laugh, it's like that.

The thing is that you were 8 years old and you have the idea of ​​a shotgun,

but in reality not.

No, I wasn't that crazy, my God.

Maybe a bullet could take an eye out of you.

Are we getting in?

Are we going to go to the side of the bridge?

I don't have a net.

Get in balls, I don't look at you.

No, it's not that, but... Come on, come on, let's go, let's go.

Vamos a comer?

Okay.

Can I? Wait.

It's just that it's old.

It's old and it's out of line. Look at it.

That's why. Try it.

Carefully. Yes.

Did you see that she is out of line?

Look at her.

Did you aim at the right or the left of the can?

No, I aimed at the can.

Let's see.

There it is.

There, I'll load you.

Shall we bet something to see who throws the can more times?

Well, what do we bet?

No, nothing. Let's see who does the best.

Well...

Yes, yes.

Aha.

Yes. Yes.

What?

No, nothing. What?

Nothing. Come on, what?

How many years have you taken me?

I don't know, two or three.

I remember when we were kids that your dad once gave my dad a lot of your

clothes.

And I spent a whole winter with a red pullover that said Eugenio here in

black. No, I didn't remember that pullover, look at you.

My grandmother made them. She made one for each brother.

Mine was the only one that had the full name. My brothers' names were Santi and

Flor.

Look.

I don't remember your brothers so much.

And no, I've been with you for a couple of years and my brothers are older.

Flor is five and Santi is seven.

Look how crazy, I didn't remember.

The old man was always there to help people.

You miss him, don't you?

He passed away recently.

He passed away two years ago.

I gave him this house and my uncles bought it to help me.

Because my brothers wanted the money and I didn't want to lose the house.

I spent all my summers here.

My uncle never told me, but...

I know it's like that.

When he found out we had to sell the house, he decided to buy it.

Oh,

fuck!

The one who loses has to give something to the other.

Will you give me the cross?

No.

No, I can't give it to a girl, I love her a lot. A girlfriend?

No.

Well, you give it to me.

Whatever you want.

Done, I'll give it to you.

Son of a bitch.

Are you ready?

Come on.

How far?

To the end.

How many? Three? Come on. One?

Two?

No, it was not worth it.

It was not worth it because my heart accelerated a lot.

I stopped because I flashed that it stopped like a tachycardia, like an

arrhythmia. Look.

You see that it goes out of time.

It's like out of time.

Do you feel there?

I didn't hear it in time.

It could be, it appeared to me.

Hey.

Martin.

Hey.

Martin, I can't take it no more.

It's a routine.

I don't know, I don't know.

Why didn't you come with the boys?

Nicolás had a birthday.

And Andrés started wanting to come. This guy, that guy... Well, why didn't you

bring him? No, I wanted to escape a little from Buenos Aires alone.

The business doesn't stop.

I have a head that explodes.

Do you like it?

What?

You gave him work because you like him. What do you think I am, an idiot?

What are you going to do? You're going to pick him up and then you're going to

tell him... Hey, sorry.

I gave you work because you were warming me up.

I couldn't not give him a hand.

You would have done the same. Do you want to be his boyfriend?

Oh, don't drive me crazy. Don't drive me crazy. Enough.

Has something happened?

No.

You know.

What did you want me to tell him?

Hey, I give you a job, but look, I'm gay.

So, I don't know, look, if you want to take the job anyway.

And if you grab it and the summer passes, what are you going to do?

You take it to Buenos Aires, to a Levi's.

You buy a couple of pilchas.

You take it to Palermo and keep it.

You send it to work at a factory.

I'll wait for you at 6 with some warm mate in your house. Cut it.

Enough.

Enough.

I'm going to get some ice and we'll have something to drink. I have to go now.

Should I continue?

Yes.

You have to buy the clue.

After you give the money.

Martín. Yes.

The poison you bought the other day, the one you put in the little room next to

the grill, did something stay?

Or did you forget everything?

I forgot a lot, because since you have to mix it with water, I only used a

third of the bidon.

Ah.

Does the water bother you?

The clothes?

Here? No, no, no. Are you sure?

Yes, yes, sure.

No, there is no problem, anyway.

If it bothers you, no, I mean.

No?

The bidon is next to the room where the tiles are.

I'll look for it, I'll look for it there.

See?

See how it falls? You have to do it like this

until they all fall because it covers the light and it doesn't let the light

in. And from end to end, from there to there, and then you have to grab it all.

It's full, it's full of leaves.

Stop,

stop, stop.

What's up?

Nothing. Are you okay?

Yes, yes, but it got in.

Ah, wait. I can't open it. Wait, wait, wait.

Let's see.

What do you want?

Slowly open it.

Slowly, slowly.

There.

There, see?

Oh, come on.

It's small.

It's small.

Yes.

Yes, no.

It's terrible the amount there is.

A lot.

No, no, no, no.

No, no.

Thank you.

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